India, Dec. 19 -- On an uncharacteristically bright and sunny July afternoon at The Oval, Gautam Gambhir and Brendon McCullum were immersed in what seemed like a non-cricketing discussion barely a few metres away from the pitch where the series finale between England and India was about to be played. If a casual cricket fan was keeping a tab on that India-England series - particularly what had transpired between the two teams in Manchester after Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar refused Ben Stokes' handshake offer, and then in the lead-up to this one between Gambhir and Surrey's curator - he would have rubbed his eyes seeing the very visuals. India's head coach and his counterpart indulging in a tete-a-tete. A regular cricket fan, how...